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KO U
a tsu i ・ a ka
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Possibly a variant of a「hand in deep friendship」GENEROUSLY offering or SHARING the「tonguing, sucking mouth of a child」as a gesture and exhibition of PROFOUND FRIENDSHIP, a situation that evolves into an「array of erections」with an IMMODEST, BRAZEN sucking-mouth child who may not hesitate in the least to comply, and finally resulting in a STRONG ODOR and THICK FLAVOR.
「Hand and tonguing mouth of child」needed no explanation in the glory days of dynastic China prior to the enactment of laws that prescribed punishment for engaging in sex with a child, even with a willing service provider.
Conversely, perhaps an IMPUDENT child [wisely] not cooperating with a guest having a STRONG ODOR or THICK FLAVOR, acts of rebellion that CAUSE STRESS among all parties.
While rather unappetizing, elements perhaps could be a「curtain of sucking-mouthed maggots.」…without teeth, maggots suck in what they ingest, as do infants. An unstoppable, THICKENING curtain of devouring maggots that are SHARING some newfound bounty as they SHAMELESSLY ingest a carcass: normally when an animal dies it soon emits a strong odor, a STRONG FLAVOR that attracts and causes a sort of race between beetles, flies that lay maggots, and other meat-eating scavengers. In many cases the scavengers feast together in an apparent exhibition of PROFOUND FRIENDSHIP, where they multiply ABUNDANTLY into an ever-THICKENING layer that SUBSTANTIALLY covers a carcass. These buggers feed with IMPUDENCE, BRAZENLY, SHAMELESSLY. While the overall image might be somewhat disgusting, the cooperative attitudes among species sharing the meat remains just as recognizable today as it did during the time of the sages, although often one needs to find roadkill in order to witness the feeding frenzy of raw meat.
「Viewing women as commodities [see 品] was also made customary from Song Dynasty (960 - 1279) forward, both in the suddenly expanded labor market and within relationships. Men could sell their female kin to slavery or prostitution, and frequently did.」
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「In traditional Chinese medicine, there has never been a mental disease called pedophilia (or an equivalent term), or homosexuality, or most of the other so-called sexual variations for that matter. …Children are usually described as natural sexual beings and erotic stimulation and sex-play are seen as beneficial to their healthy development.」
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External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: thick; deep or profound; kind; generous; rich or strong in flavor; to favor; to stress
Japanese EDRDG: thick, heavy, rich, kind, cordial, brazen, shameless
Unihan extended: thick; substantial; greatly
Used within names (nanori)
あ ・ あっ
Always keep in mind that these glyphs most likely were originally designed by groups of clever old men as vulgar riddles for their own entertainment
(see 籒 for that),
representing Chinese society many thousands of years ago, but intended NOT as a written or spoken language when created.
If these glyphs had been intended for language use, the sages could not have possibly designed a worse system!
Is it truly possible that all these glyphs started out as off-color jokes and puzzles?
Yes! It is, and often with multiple correct answers to each riddle, the same as is true today.
Sex had no shame in ancient China.
Why would it?
But, have there been necessary rewrites and altered explanations of the original elemental meanings over the centuries?
No one is suggesting these glyphs depict contemporary life in China, Japan, or anywhere else.
This site describes glyph meanings, not people.
These glyphs however, describe many and various things, including people, long before there were any notions of becoming politically incorrect.
The question to be answered is, should these glyphs continue being used, by anyone, anywhere, for expressing language?
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Despite how seemingly bad our human existence is today, do you actually believe that the so-called good old days were any better?
Or could they have been worse?
By the way, with a limited number of the same elements used by the sages again and again to form these glyphs,
you should expect to find the same explanations again and again, as tedious as that may become, and as an inherent trait of any lexicon.
This site explains multiple meanings of glyphs ignored or censored by other sources, generally as being too embarrassing to admit today.
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Japanese vocabulary: 87 entries
Chinese usage: 94 entries
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